Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]

August 17, 2020 • 00:42:47
Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]
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Read_429 - Discovering Bitcoin #5 - Digital Scarcity [Giacomo Zucco]

Aug 17 2020 | 00:42:47

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Show Notes

Continuing the excellent series of Discovering Bitcoin, moving into the digital age, we have lost the most fundamental element of our money, it's "hardness." By what means can we get it back? Can we make a scarce money in the digital world, that has no authority, no ruler? Can we restore the freedom of decentralized money? Find out about the brilliant use of difficult puzzles, to achieve digital hardness, in part #5 of Giacomo's excellent series, "Digital Scarcity."

Find the original article and links to the other great reads in this series at Bitcoin Magazine:
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/articles/discovering-bitcoin-part-5-digital-scarcity

Check out the previous parts if you haven't yet!
Part 1 - About Time: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_422---Discovering-Bitcoin---From-Cavemen-to-Lightning--Part-1-Giacomo-Zucco-ehdkrb
Part 2 - About People: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_424---Discovering-Bitcoin-2---About-People-Giacomo-Zucco-ehgquv
Part 3 - Introducing Money: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_426---Discovering-Bitcoin-3-Introducing-Money-Giacomo-Zucco-ehphre
Part 4 - A Wrong Turn: https://anchor.fm/thecryptoconomy/episodes/Read_428---Discovering-Bitcoin-4---A-Wrong-Turn--A-New-Plan-Giacomo-Zucco-ei2k64

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